This Megaquake Can Hit for the First Time in 320 Years


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This Megaquake Can Hit for the First Time in 320 Years

Over three hundred years ago, the Northwest Coast of America was hit by a powerful earthquake that caused numerous fires… and also triggered a massive tsunami. On that day, hundreds of settlements went underwater. Thousands of people went missing… The reason for everything was Cascadia.

This is the so-called subduction zone, the place where one tectonic plate converges on another. Every two hundred fifty years, there is a shift in Cascadia that results in an earthquake with a magnitude greater than eight. And you know what? Cascadia’s time has come again.

 


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